Black Diamond

Buraka Som Sistema, Buraka Som Sistema | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 7, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Fabric
• ASIN: B001HU946I
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #128,961 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Buraka Som Sistema consists of producers Lil' John, Riot and Conductor, and MC Kalaf, but count amongst their ranks an extended family of dancers and MCs from around the globe. Every face is a valued part of their limb-enslaving hybrid assault of native Angolan Kuduro and the roughest globe-scoured ghetto-funk riddims.

In just two years, the group have released a slew of breakthrough singles, torched the blogosphere with their MIA featuring viral video `Sound Of Kuduro', and wowed audiences in over 13 countries with the mesmerizing dance-driven spectacle at the heart of kuduro. No wonder Fader mag dubbed their live feast, "One of the most jaw-droppingly effusive club moments we've experienced.

"Now with their debut long-player, `Black Diamond,' finally set to drop, escalating infamy is set to erupt into worldwide domination. With powerful comrades in the likes of Diplo and Switch, and collaborators in Kano, MIA and Hot Chip - to name but a few - they've become the driving heartbeat of the headline-grabbing global ghetto-funk revolution.

Buraka Som Sistema have launched Kuduro into a foreign spotlight for the fi rst time and allied BSS with an emerging web-savvy clique of disparately located global acts taking exotic urban soundtracks to the masses. Alongside artists like Brazil's Bonde Do Role, Britain's MIA, and America's Diplo, crosspollinating ghetto-sounds were uniting hips in motion, and making world music the coolest it has ever been.

An explosive multi-decked live show was assembled, involving physics-defying dance troupes and rotating rapid-fire MCs, exporting the unhinged mayhem across the world. More music, including the rampaging cavalcade `Sound Of Kuduro', featuring number one fan-girl MIA, would help earn them MTV Europe Award nominations, invitations into Damon Albarn's revered Africa Express project, and ensure that whether it be in high-brow broadsheet features or ram-jammed club scenes, Buraka look set to be one of 2009's most talked-about acts.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Music to Mend the Past(?), May 13, 2009

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Michael C. Puzio - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Black Diamond (Audio CD)

Buraka Som Sistema are a rag tag team that put together an excellently thumping album that has a streamlined semi-theme to it. It's genre is kuduro; although it could easily pass with great acclaim and pride to be the fantastic melding of latin-esque style, hip-hop & 'drum & bass's dependence on strong bass rythyms, and the sampling & variations with electronica-like approach. The thematic gist of 'Black Diamond' seems to be on the verge of attempting to say something able to be interpreted as socio-political speech. From the obvious that the members are a Portuguese-Angolan identifying piece, to the tracks 'Africas Pt. 1' & '2', they infuse the convergence of cultures to create a sound quantifiably not new to the ear, but distinctly original in it's own product. This may, one might say, mirror the developing socio-political changes that are presently occurring in Angola (Africa symbollically as a whole) and Portugal (the E.U., really) as presented in the language and the topics briefly mentioned throughout different tracks & in the short title itself. Obviously the past of these two countries and continents is not positive, but at present, with the changes and developments in both that we may or may not be aware of, there is an interaction & even potential sense of interdependence that is the elusive message behind the simple content of 'Black Diamond'. Buraka Som Sistema may be surmised as saying: while past is prologue, the present is - as these artists have created through their music - what we make to be the future. That, or I've read too deep into it. Either way, it's a superb album for people who enjoy hip-hop, techno or electronica, and/or reggaeton/latin-influenced pop.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great mix of African and electronic music, January 2, 2012

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Camilo - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Black Diamond (Audio CD)

Although I'm not new to African music (in a broad sense) I'm new at Kuduro, this is the first kuduro CD I'd bought. I totally loved it, it's very catchy, has a lot of energy and I love the African influence. I hope Amazon expands its catalog of Kuduro bands, such as Os Lambas or Dog Murras.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Dance Album of 2009, September 18, 2009

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Sara Sousa Silva "Sagres Natura Surfcamp Port... (Sagres Algarve Portugal) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Black Diamond (Audio CD)

The songs in this cd are amazing, are really energetic and ecletic, you can dance till you fall!